Archie Alleyne

Archie Alleyne CM (January 7, 1933 – June 8, 2015) was a Canadian jazz drummer.[1] Best known as a drummer for influential jazz musicians such as Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster, he was also prominent as a recording artist on his own and with Canadian jazz musicians such as Oliver Jones, Cy McLean and Brian Browne.[2]

Archie Alleyne
CM
Image of playing drums
Background information
Born(1933-01-07)January 7, 1933
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DiedJune 8, 2015(2015-06-08) (aged 82)
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Drummer

Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario,[1] Alleyne became the house drummer at the Town Tavern jazz club in his 20s.[1]

Following a serious car accident in 1967, Alleyne stepped away from music for a number of years,[1] becoming a partner with Dave Mann, John Henry Jackson and Howard Matthews in The Underground Railroad, a soul food restaurant in Toronto.[3]

After being bought out of the restaurant in 1981,[4] he returned to music in the early 1980s with Oliver Jones' band.[2]

Alleyne was named to the Order of Canada in 2011.[2] He established the Archie Alleyne Scholarship Fund to provide bursaries to music students,[5] and wrote Colour Me Jazz: The Archie Alleyne Story, an autobiography which was published a few months after his death.[6]

References
  1. "Archie Alleyne, renowned Toronto jazz drummer, dead at 82". CBC News, June 8, 2015.
  2. "RIP Archie Alleyne". Ottawa Citizen, June 9, 2015.
  3. Rosemary Sadlier, "BLACK IN TORONTO: Remembering Howard Matthews and the now-closed Underground Railroad Restaurant". Scarborough Mirror, September 15, 2016.
  4. Mark Miller, "Alleyne is back, and so are his 'chops'". The Globe and Mail, February 18, 1982.
  5. "The Life and Times of Archie Alleyne, Toronto's Greatest Jazz Drummer". Noisey, June 8, 2015.
  6. "Colour Me Jazz: The Archie Alleyne Story launch, reading". CJRT-FM, October 28, 2015.


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